(08-09-2012 07:00 PM)Peterkin Wrote: But, see, the mentally impaired and the aboriginals who have not had the benefit of missionaries don't get their free pass to the same heaven as the elders of some Arizona congregation. All they get to is an anteroom sort of thing where the blessed missionaries will complete their education.

Wait. So you're saying they actually go to hell?

Well, there is a Hell holding area... according to some, Catholics in particular, there is Purgatory - a sort of a stopping place where judgement is given a helping hand. It's a place for final purification of all who die in God's grace and friendship, but are still imperfectly purified.

It's also the place where, if you were too stupid or uninformed while alive to figure out that you better believe in God or else, you are given a full explanation and the choice to except or tell God to piss off.

Your life is probably not really important, what is important is who had power over your internal struggle - you or God. Your entire life is an actual fight with God for omnipotence. Well, all the power over you, anyway.

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels. ~ Albert Einstein

Well, there is a Hell holding area... according to some, Catholics in particular, there is Purgatory - a sort of a stopping place where judgement is given a helping hand. It's a place for final purification of all who die in God's grace and friendship, but are still imperfectly purified.

It's also the place where, if you were too stupid or uninformed while alive to figure out that you better believe in God or else, you are given a full explanation and the choice to except or tell God to piss off.

Your life is probably not really important, what is important is who had power over your internal struggle - you or God. Your entire life is an actual fight with God for omnipotence. Well, all the power over you, anyway.

Shit, kim, ain't that where we find our sorry asses.

As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

(08-09-2012 07:00 PM)Peterkin Wrote: But, see, the mentally impaired and the aboriginals who have not had the benefit of missionaries don't get their free pass to the same heaven as the elders of some Arizona congregation. All they get to is an anteroom sort of thing where the blessed missionaries will complete their education.

I hope the anteroom will see fit to give them a vigourous and demanding "going over" to ensure they reach Yahehs divine criteria, and gain notthing by default.

Hey Kim, in the Dark Ages, the punters could pay for special relics and prayers for those in purgatory and thus improve their odds .....................

So Woofy - in the Dark Ages - one hedged their bet to get into heaven by selling relics or purchasing them? It would be shitty to know that only thing keeping me out of heaven might be whether I bought a Saint's willy or not.